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Home Sales Tumble 2.6%
The Associated PressSales of existing homes fell more sharply than expected in June as the housing industry continued to be bruised by the worst slump in more than two decades. The National Association of Realtors reported that sales dropped by 2.6 percent last month to a...Tags: Freddie Mac, National Government, Foreclosures, Inventories, Clubs and Associations
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Housing rescue bill OK'd
The House approved a sweeping plan yesterday that responds to the most serious housing crisis since the Depression by providing a federal backstop for struggling mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and aid to homeowners facing foreclosure.
In a...Tags: Freddie Mac, Upper House, Financial and Business Services, Roscoe G Bartlett, Mortgages
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Record home losses in California
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersThe price tag for the nation's housing crisis escalated again with reports Tuesday that a record number of Californians lost their homes to foreclosure in the last three months and that a potential bailout of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...Tags: Freddie Mac, Garden Grove, New York, Financial and Business Services, Mortgages
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Paterson, top state lawmakers discuss economic downturn
james.madore@newsday.comALBANY - Predicting gasoline will hit $5 a gallon by September and less state revenue from Wall Street, Gov. David A. Paterson met top lawmakers yesterday to begin grappling with the effects of an economic downturn. Afterward, Paterson said it was too...Tags: David A. Paterson, State Budgets, Conservation, Health and Safety at School, Petroleum Industry
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Paterson prepares for economic downturn
james.madore@newsday.comPredicting gasoline will hit $5 a gallon by September and less state revenue from Wall Street, Gov. David A. Paterson met top lawmakers yesterday to begin grappling with the effects of an economic downturn. Afterward, Paterson said it was too early to...Tags: David A. Paterson, State Budgets, Health and Safety at School, Petroleum Industry, Conservation
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More economic squeeze called likely in 2nd half
Associated PressFactories laying off workers, stocks tumbling and shoppers ditching their credit cards forced the economy to contract in June, a trend likely to continue in the second half of 2008, a private business group said yesterday. The New York-based Conference...Tags: General Motors Corp., Vehicles, Heavy Engineering, New York, Weather Reports
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Shoreline savings
If the downturn in Maryland's real estate industry weren't bad enough, it has also had the effect of greatly diminishing the state's much-needed land conservation efforts. Program Open Space, which underwrites much of the state and local land purchases,...Tags: Natural Resources, Land Resources, Maryland, Local Authority, Chesapeake (Chesapeake, Virginia)
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Developer returns luster to L.A. landmarks
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterDeveloper Wayne Ratkovich had little idea 30 years ago when he and his partners bought an unwanted office building in downtown Los Angeles that a forgotten gem lay waiting. The office market at the time was hot for glass and steel towers, and to hell...Tags: Arts, National Government, Renovation, Rental Service, John F. Kennedy
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Searching online for a home: Many websites, varying insights
Special to The TimesFirst of two parts. If Americans have come to rely on the Internet to search for houses -- and last year, the National Assn. of Realtors says, 84% of all buyers did -- where should one start? The Web is awash in sites that promise to help focus a home...Tags: Foreclosures, Microsoft Corp., Demographics, Real Estate Sales, Sales
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In commercial projects, lending again personal
The Wall Street JournalAfter a decade of easy lending, the personal guarantee is making a comeback in the real-estate industry, and with it the tough terms borrowers didn't miss. As loans for commercial projects have become difficult to come by, borrowers are being forced to...Tags: Mortgages, LaSalle Bank, Wachovia Corp., Santa Monica, Franklin Templeton Limited Duration Income Trust
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